"1964 (making it Orbison's second UK No.1 single [the first was ""Only the Lonely"" in 1960]). ""It's Over"" spent 2 weeks at No.1 on the UK singles chart, out of a total of 18 weeks on that chart. The song also spent ten weeks in the Irish Singles Chart, three of which were at No.1. It was one of six chart-toppers for Orbison in Ireland. The song also appears on Orbison's 1964 album ""More of Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits"" and his 1989 posthumous album ""A Black & White Night Live"" from the 1988 HBO television special. In 1964, Hong Kong"
"The Classic Roy Orbison The Classic Roy Orbison is the ninth studio album recorded by Roy Orbison, and his third on the MGM Records label, released in July 1966. The single taken from it, ""Twinkle Toes"", would be Orbison's last US top-forty single during his lifetime, scraping in at #39. It also reached #24 in Australia and #29 in the UK. Some of the songs were leftovers from ""The Orbison Way"" sessions, Whilst the album was due to be complete Orbison went to England and promoted the single “Twinkle Toes”. On Easter Sunday 1966, he was riding his motorbike at"
"Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits is a Roy Orbison record album from Monument Records recorded at the RCA Studio B in Nashville and released in 1962. Between the hit songs were also ""Love Star"" and ""Evergreen"" which were released here for the first time. ""Dream Baby"" had recently been a No. 4 hit in the United States and No. 2 in England. According to the official Roy Orbison discography by Marcel Riesco, this was Orbison's third album on the Monument label, and his first greatest hits compilation. It was a success remaining in the charts for 140"
"Roy Orbison discography Roy Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer-songwriter who found the most success in the early rock and roll era from 1956 to 1964. He later enjoyed a resurgence in the late 1980s with chart success as a member of the Traveling Wilburys and with his ""Mystery Girl"" album which included the hit single ""You Got It"". At the height of his popularity, 22 of Orbison's songs placed on the US ""Billboard"" Top 40 chart, and six peaked in the top five, including two number one hits. In the UK, Orbison scored"
"Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson is a tribute album recorded by Roy Orbison for MGM Records, and his tenth studio album overall. Released in January 1967, it is a collection of songs written by Country Music Hall of Fame singer/songwriter Don Gibson who, like Orbison, often wrote about the loneliness and sorrow that love can bring. Its one single, ""Too Soon to Know"", became a smash hit in the UK, reaching #3 there in September 1966, and also reached #4 in Ireland and #27 in Australia. This album was entitled ""Sweet Dreams"" in Africa. A"
"You Got It ""You Got It"" is a song from Roy Orbison's twenty-second studio album, ""Mystery Girl"" (1989). According to the official Roy Orbison discography by Marcel Riesco, ""You Got It"" was released in January 1989 with ""The Only One"" as the B-side. The A-side reached number nine on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and number one on the Adult Contemporary chart, returning Orbison to the Top 10 for the first time in 25 years. It also reached number three on the UK Singles Chart in early 1989, posthumously released after Orbison's heart attack on December 6, 1988. Although it is"
"single shot to number two on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and hit number one in the UK, Ireland and Australia. According to Orbison, he and Melson now began constructing songs with Orbison's voice in mind, specifically to showcase its range and power. He told ""Rolling Stone"" in 1988, ""I liked the sound of [my voice]. I liked making it sing, making the voice ring, and I just kept doing it. And I think that somewhere between the time of ""Ooby Dooby"" and ""Only the Lonely"", it kind of turned into a good voice."" Instantly Orbison was in high demand. He"
"a more complete list of compilation releases, see link. Roy Orbison discography Roy Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer-songwriter who found the most success in the early rock and roll era from 1956 to 1964. He later enjoyed a resurgence in the late 1980s with chart success as a member of the Traveling Wilburys and with his ""Mystery Girl"" album which included the hit single ""You Got It"". At the height of his popularity, 22 of Orbison's songs placed on the US ""Billboard"" Top 40 chart, and six peaked in the top five, including"
"weeks. It was re-released in 1967 after his departure from Monument Records. Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits is a Roy Orbison record album from Monument Records recorded at the RCA Studio B in Nashville and released in 1962. Between the hit songs were also ""Love Star"" and ""Evergreen"" which were released here for the first time. ""Dream Baby"" had recently been a No. 4 hit in the United States and No. 2 in England. According to the official Roy Orbison discography by Marcel Riesco, this was Orbison's third album on the Monument label, and his first greatest"
"somewhat from the attention. The ever-present sunglasses led some people to assume that the stationary performer was blind. His black clothes and the desperation in his songs emanated the image of mystery and introversion. His dark and brooding persona, combined with his tremulous voice in lovelorn ballads marketed to teenagers, made Orbison a star in the early 1960s. His string of top-40 hits continued with ""In Dreams"" (US number seven, UK number six), ""Falling"" (US number 22, UK number 9), and ""Mean Woman Blues"" (US number five, UK number three) coupled with ""Blue Bayou"" (US number 29, UK number three)."
"In Dreams (Roy Orbison song) ""In Dreams"" is a song composed and sung by rock and roll performer Roy Orbison. An operatic ballad of lost love, it was released as a single on Monument Records in February 1963. It became the title track on the album ""In Dreams"", released in July of the same year. The song has a unique structure in seven musical movements in which Orbison sings through two octaves, beyond the range of most rock and roll singers. The song peaked on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 charts at number 7, and charted in the United Kingdom for"
"that she had been struck by a lorry and died later in the hospital. The album reached No. 12 in the UK. All tracks composed by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees, except where indicated. Produced by Wesley Rose & Jim Vienneau Engineered by Val Valentin The Classic Roy Orbison The Classic Roy Orbison is the ninth studio album recorded by Roy Orbison, and his third on the MGM Records label, released in July 1966. The single taken from it, ""Twinkle Toes"", would be Orbison's last US top-forty single during his lifetime, scraping in at #39. It also reached #24 in"
"an international hit, the B-side ""Love Hurts"" also picked up significant airplay in Australia. Consequently, chart figures for Australia show ""Running Scared""/""Love Hurts"" as a double A-side, both sides peaking at number five. This makes Orbison's recording of ""Love Hurts"" the first version to be a hit. ""Love Hurts"" later became better known in a version by rock band Nazareth, who had an international hit with it in 1975. Running Scared (Roy Orbison song) ""Running Scared"" is a song written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson and sung by Orbison. An operatic rock ballad, the song was released as a"
"""Crying"" followed in July 1961 and reached number two; it was coupled with an up-tempo R&B song, ""Candy Man"", written by Fred Neil and Beverley Ross, which reached the ""Billboard"" Top 30, staying on the charts for two months. While Orbison was touring Australia in 1962, an Australian DJ referred to him affectionately as ""The Big O"", partly based on the big finishes to his dramatic ballads, and the moniker stuck with him thereafter. Orbison's second son was born the same year, and Orbison hit number four in the United States and number two in the UK with ""Dream Baby"
"There Is Only One Roy Orbison There Is Only One Roy Orbison is the seventh album recorded by Roy Orbison, and his first for MGM Records, released in July 1965. It features his studio recording of ""Claudette"", an Orbison-penned song which had become a hit for The Everly Brothers in 1958. Ironically, at the time he recorded the song in 1965, he had divorced his wife Claudette who had inspired the lyrics. Orbison later re-recorded the song for """" in 1985. (They later reconciled in 1966, before her death in a motorcycle accident in June of that year near Galatin,"
"money. Dees said, ""A pretty woman never needs any money"". Just 40 minutes later, ""Oh, Pretty Woman"" was completed. A riff-laden masterpiece that employed a playful growl he got from a Bob Hope movie, the epithet ""mercy"" Orbison uttered when he was unable to hit a note, and a merging of his vulnerable and masculine sides, it rose to number one in the fall of 1964 in the United States and stayed on the charts for 14 weeks. It rose to number one in the UK, as well, spending 18 weeks total on the charts. The single sold over seven"
"million copies. Orbison's success was greater in Britain; as ""Billboard"" magazine noted, ""In a 68-week period that began on August 8, 1963, Roy Orbison was the ""only"" American artist to have a number-one single in Britain. He did it twice, with 'It's Over' on June 25, 1964, and 'Oh, Pretty Woman' on October 8, 1964. The latter song also went to number one in America, making Orbison impervious to the current chart dominance of British artists on both sides of the Atlantic."" Following ""Oh, Pretty Woman"", Orbison endured some upheavals. Claudette and he divorced in November 1964 over her infidelities,"
"commercial failure of Orbison's work at MGM. Engineer Bill Porter agreed that Orbison's best work could only be achieved with RCA Nashville's A-Team. Orbison's first collection at MGM, an album titled ""There Is Only One Roy Orbison"", sold fewer than 200,000 copies. With the onset of the British Invasion in 1964–65, the direction of popular music shifted dramatically, and most performers of Orbison's generation were driven from the charts. While on tour again in the UK in 1966, Orbison broke his foot falling off a motorcycle in front of thousands of screaming fans at a race track; he performed his"
"it as the B-side to ""Running Scared"". While ""Running Scared"" was an international hit, the B-side only picked up significant airplay in Australia. Consequently, chart figures for Australia show ""Running Scared""/""Love Hurts"" as a double A-Side, both sides peaking at No. 5. This makes Orbison's recording of ""Love Hurts"" the first version to be a hit. Jim Capaldi reached number 4 in the UK charts with his interpretation of ""Love Hurts"" in November 1975, which was to prove his highest charting UK single. Described by ""Rolling Stone"" as having ""a sense of pain very different from Roy Orbison's."" the single"
"a hit in 1956. ""Ooby Dooby"" did well nationwide, reaching #59 on the Billboards Hot 100 and sold roughly 200,000 copies. According to the official Roy Orbison discography by Marcel Riesco, the follow-up single was ""Rockhouse"" b/w ""You're My Baby"", and shortly after the this release the Teen Kings disbanded, and Orbison remained under contract to Sun as a solo artist. Orbison continued recording using the Sun house musicians. Not unlike several other artists at Sun, Roy Orbison was unhappy with the direction Sam Phillips was taking. Orbison noted that he wasn't quite comfortable with rockabilly but later stated he"
"charts. ""Only the Lonely"" reached Number One in the United Kingdom, a position it achieved on 20 October 1960, staying there for two weeks (out of a total of 24 weeks spent on the UK singles chart from 28 July 1960). The personnel on the original recording included Orbison's session regulars Buddy Harman on drums, Floyd Cramer on piano, Bob Moore on bass, and Hank Garland and Harold Bradley on guitars. After several years without much success in the music business, and sharing a tiny apartment with his wife and new baby, Roy Orbison had taken to sitting in his"
"According to the official Roy Orbison U.S. discography by Marcel Riesco, a rare alternate version of ""Blue Bayou"" was released only in Italy. Orbison finished 1963 with a Christmas song written by Willie Nelson, ""Pretty Paper"" (US number 15 in 1963, UK number six in 1964). As ""In Dreams"" was released in April 1963, Orbison was asked to replace the guitarist Duane Eddy on a tour of the UK in top billing with the Beatles, whose popularity was on the rise. When he arrived in Britain, however, he saw the amount of advertising devoted to the quartet and realized he"
"only number 72 on the ""Billboard"" Top 100, and Orbison set his sights on negotiating a contract with an upscale nightclub somewhere. His initial success came just as the '50s rock-and-roll era was winding down. Elvis Presley was serving in the US Army, Jerry Lee Lewis had become disgraced after marrying his 13-year-old cousin, and Buddy Holly had died in a plane crash. Starting in 1960, the charts in the United States came to be dominated by teen idols, novelty acts, and Motown girl groups. Experimenting with a new sound, Orbison and Joe Melson wrote a song in early 1960"
"using falsetto and sang the final high 'A' naturally, so astonishing everyone present that the accompanying musicians stopped playing. On that third take, ""Running Scared"" was completed. Fred Foster later recalled, ""He did it, and everybody looked around in amazement. Nobody had heard anything like it before."" Just weeks later ""Running Scared"" reached number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart and number 9 in the UK. The composition of Orbison's following hits reflected ""Running Scared"": a story about an emotionally vulnerable man facing loss or grief, with a crescendo culminating in a surprise climax that employed Orbison's dynamic voice."
"by the song; it was titled ""In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story"" and released in 1999. The song ""Love's Secret Domain"" by Coil uses some lyrics from ""In Dreams"". In Dreams (Roy Orbison song) ""In Dreams"" is a song composed and sung by rock and roll performer Roy Orbison. An operatic ballad of lost love, it was released as a single on Monument Records in February 1963. It became the title track on the album ""In Dreams"", released in July of the same year. The song has a unique structure in seven musical movements in which Orbison sings through two"
"Oh, Pretty Woman ""Oh, Pretty Woman"" or ""Pretty Woman"" is a song recorded by Roy Orbison, written by Orbison and Bill Dees. It was released as a single in August 1964 on Monument Records and spent three weeks at number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 from September 26, 1964, the second single by Orbison to top the US charts. It was also Orbison's third single to top the UK Singles Chart (for a total of three weeks). The record ultimately sold seven million copies and marked the high point in Orbison's career. Within months of its release, in October"
"along with a visit from their sister Marie. Osmond became a teen idol in the early 1970s as a solo singer, while continuing to sing with his older brothers. Osmond, Bobby Sherman, and David Cassidy were the biggest ""Cover Boy"" pop stars for ""Tiger Beat"" magazine in the early 1970s. His first solo hit was a cover of Roy Orbison's 1958 recording of ""Sweet and Innocent,"" which peaked at No. 7 in the U.S. in 1971. Osmond's follow-ups ""Go Away Little Girl"" (1971) (U.S. #1), ""Puppy Love"" (U.S. #3), and ""Hey Girl/I Knew You When"" (U.S. #9) (1972) vaulted him"
"Go Go Go (Roy Orbison song) ""Go Go Go (Down the Line)"" (often credited as ""Down the Line"") is a song by Roy Orbison, released in 1956. According to the official Roy Orbison discography by Marcel Riesco, this was the B-side to Orbison's first Sun Records release ""Ooby Dooby"". This was the first song written by Orbison. The song was released as a Sun Records single in May, 1956, Sun 242, Matrix # U-193, as the B side to ""Ooby Dooby"" with the backup group The Teen Kings. The song was later released under the title ""Down the Line"" by"
"Early Orbison Early Orbison is an album recorded by Roy Orbison on the Monument Records label at the RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, and released in 1964. Essentially a compilation of songs from his first two Monument albums, it is most noteworthy for containing ""Pretty One"", the ""B"" side of Orbison's second Monument single, ""Uptown"". Many Orbison fans believe ""Pretty One"" would have been his first major hit had it been promoted as an ""A"" side. The second song of interest on this album is ""Come Back to Me My Love"" which Fred Foster, owner of Monument Records and"
"""Crying"" (1961), ""In Dreams"" (1963), and ""Oh, Pretty Woman"" (1964). Soon afterward, Orbison was struck by a number of personal tragedies while his record sales declined. In the 1980s, he experienced a resurgence in popularity through the success of several cover versions of his songs, and in 1988, co-founded the Traveling Wilburys, a rock supergroup with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne. He died of a heart attack later that year, at the age of 52. One month later, his song ""You Got It"" (1989), co-written with Lynne and Petty, was released as a solo single and"
"single in the US, peaking at number 29; ""Mean Woman Blues"" was a US number 5, released in August 1963, written by Claude Demetrius and originally recorded by Elvis Presley in 1957. In the UK both sides peaked at number 3 as a double A-sided single on London Monument, HLU 9777. The song also appeared on Orbison's 1963 full-length album ""In Dreams"". According to the official Roy Orbison U.S. discography by Marcel Riesco, a rare different version of ""Blue Bayou"" was released only in Italy (London 45-HL 1499). ""Blue Bayou"" reappeared on his 1989 posthumous album ""A Black & White"
"with manager Jason Owen and songwriter/producer Shane McAnally, both serving as co-presidents. In the beginning, Monument was the first label to be distributed by London Records. Monument Records' first release (October 1958) was also the label's first hit. Billy Grammer's ""Gotta Travel On"" became a US Top 5 ""Billboard"" record chart success which sold over 900,000 copies. It also spawned a nationwide dance craze called ""The Shag"". The signing of former Sun Records singer Roy Orbison brought more success to Monument Records, beginning with the 1960 release ""Only the Lonely."" By 1961, London Records was distributing more than forty independent"
"and movie film projected onto Lauper's naked body. Jeff Lynne remixed Roy Orbison's 1987 recordings for the 1992 posthumous album ""King of Hearts,"" of which ""I Drove All Night"" was one of the tracks. However, Orbison's version of the song first appeared on the 1991 compilation album """". It was released as a single in 1992. The song was a significant hit in the United Kingdom, reaching number 7 on the UK Singles Chart, matching the peak position of Lauper's version three years earlier. ""King of Hearts"" and ""I Drove All Night"" were generally well received in the United States,"